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		          <h2>Welcome To Venice</h2>

                          Venice is a stock market trading programme that supports portfolio
                          management, charting, technical analysis, paper trading and
                          experimental methods like genetic programming. Venice runs in a
                          graphical user interface with online help and has full documentation.
                          Venice runs on UNIX, including Mac OS X and Windows.

		          <h3>News</h3>

			  <p><i>21/March/2010</i>: Venice 0.72beta released</p>

			  <p>This release includes some extra functionality and also fixes bugs which have been accumulating in the source repository. </p>

			  <p>The bugs fixed include:
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			      <li>Genetic Algorithm processing</li>
			      <li>Exceptions thrown when user clicked in the background</li>
			      <li>Exporting MetaStock quotes in locales which use commas as decimal points</li>
			      <li>Point and Figure initial chart direction</li>			              <li>Other miscellaneous bugs</li>
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			  <p>The extra functions include: 
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			      <li>Support for downloading of quotes from <a href="finance.google.com">Google Finance</a></li>
			      <li>The ability for Venice to restore the position and contents of windows upon restart</li>
			      <li>Improved the performance of Advance/Decline Market Indicator when the quote source is an external (SQL) database.</li>
			      <li>The ability to revert the horizontal orientation of charts.</li>
			      <li>Added Fibonacci Indicator</li>			      
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		          <p><i>11/June/2008</i>: Launch of new website - venice.org.nz</p>                          

		          <p><i>25/February/2007</i>: Venice 0.71beta released</p>

                          This release enhances XML support, and provides better
                          downloading of ASX quotes.

		          <p><i>17/April/2006</i>: Venice 0.7beta released</p>

			  This release brings numerous performance improvements, and
			  multi-currency portfolio support.

		          <p><i>23/October/2005</i>: Venice 0.6beta released</p>

                          This release brings basic intra-day quote support,
                          a Polish translation and many bug fixes.

		          <p><i>13/March/2005</i>: Venice 0.5alpha released</p>

                          The biggest release yet. This release brings the addition
                          of Genetic Algorithm support, Jython scripting and
                          charting of custom indicators. Stock quote import and
                          management have been improved and simplified. Venice
                          has now been translated into Swedish.

		          <p><i>14/August/2004</i>: Venice 0.4alpha released</p>

                          Venice has now been translated into Chinese, Italian &
                          French. This release brings incremental improvements
                          to charting, portfolio management, the gondola language and
                          genetic programming. There have also been many bug fixes.

		          <p><i>14/March/2004</i>: Venice 0.3alpha released</p>

			  The third release brings support for importing quotes from
			  the internet, improved stored equation support,
			  further improvements to the Gondola language and many
			  bug fixes.

		          <p><i>24/Aug/2003</i>: Venice 0.2alpha released</p>

                          The second release brings more stock listing tables,
                          improved paper trading with more Gondola functions, and
                          also genetic programming.

		          <p><i>13/April/2003</i>: Venice 0.1alpha released</p>

                          First release.

		          <p><i>17/August/2002</i>: Project Venice web page created</p>

		          Venice now has a web page!

		          <p><i>15/May/2002</i>: Project Venice moved to sourceforge</p>

		          This is the first step in making Venice publicly available and
		          will hopefully soon lead to a first release.

		          <p><i>1/March/2001</i>: Start of Project Venice</p>

		          Project Venice was initially started as a genetic programming
			  implementation that <i>evovled</i> buy/sell rules. Since then the
			  project scope has expanded to provide much more.
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